5 of the Strangest Places on Earth
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#6 - The basement that Simon keeps Danny in
Allegedly
According to some people's opinion.
I got a "❤️" . This is the proudest moment of my life!
This the proudest moment of my life! Simping for Simon!
Nah, it's just a regular sex dungeon.
As someone who's been fortunate enough to visit and explore the Waitomo Caves, it really is a magical place. When I was there 7 years ago, there were two tour operators: The main one has a huge facility and is your typical tourist attraction vibe. The other, which I think was called "spellbound" was a much smaller and personable experience. We were in NZ right at the start of the Holidays and I'll never forget the experiences of being about 100a ft underground, with my friends (Were from he US) and the rest of the group who was from the UK, France, Begium, and Brazil. Singing Christmas Carols with the sparkling Glow worms as our only light. It was magical.
I've been to Waitomo as well. A magical experience, indeed.
I live in Auckland, never been, lol.
Simon could do a side projects on 'how many YT channels do I narrate for?'
Or is that a mega projects?
I keep discovering new ones. Keep up the talking!
He lists all of them if you click around on "description", "more..." and so on
Stumbled across one of your channels about a week ago and have been binge watching all of them ever since!! As a history freak & being insatiably curious, I can't get enough of the information you give us! Keep it up , Simon , I love the sound of your voice, & at 71, there isn't much else to do in the age of COVID 19 when I only go out when it's absolutely necessary & unavoidable!!
Fascinating eggskull yes?
Same one year later
Nice to see the Causeway included here. Incidentally if you come to visit it, don't park in the National Trust car park, it costs a fortune. You can park for free anywhere nearby and access to the Causeway is free on foot. The price of the National Trust car park has been quite the bone of contention locally. Just letting you know.
Are there other places you can park without blocking roads?
Also it is not in the uk
@@adamsandles8103 Sorry it is in the UK.
The Buzludzha monument is really stunning in person and I hope the rennovation gets completed soon. Greetings from Bulgaria
Rod Sprague
While I am not a big advocate of trying to build a universal Communist culture at gunpoint, we do need to restore monuments to our low points in history.
Hello from Prague, I know that communist dictatorship was terrible, but I definitelly didnt like how the commentator found it laughable. Without socialism not even Britain would have things like social insurance, vacation or public healthcare, and world would ve run by billionaires like Jeff Bezos, who pay minimum wage to their workers and then fly to space. People who have lived in 20s and 30s, whos parents remembered q9s century wild capitalusm, had full right to beleive in communism. Many people beleiced it sincerely and did a lot of good.
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@@rodsprague369 let's build monuments right now then, so we remember how we lost 2+ million inhabitants in less than 30 years while the mafia runs loose
We did build one for the Viet Nam War.
Discovery channel, "Must be aliens"
Simon, "They are wrong."
*I'm not saying it was aliens...
because it wasn't.
"Ancient alien theorists say yes!"
Yup got Waitomo pronunciation right and yes the "crickets' are terrifying and called Wetas. I believe the Moari used them as stitches. Great work Simon.
Just Googled Wetas. Omg!
@@DarkFire1536 Dont get me started on wētā, they have a large and diverse family tree, you have the tree wētā which is most common to me living in the north island and are scattered everywhere (often inopportune places such as shoes), then the type you will find in waitomo are the cave wētā which have giant oversized and spindly legs, then you have the incredible and terrifying giant wētās, among other genus of weta each with many species. NZ has some great examples of Island gigantism my favourite of which being the giant snail which weighs 6 times as much as the typical garden snail and has a shell measuring 9cm across and is among the biggest in the world, sadly I have only found the shells and have yet to see one of these behemoths alive.
Maori
“Way-tomo” is not how it’s said. It’s “why-taw-maw”.
Wow, I didn't expect to see Slab City on this. I loved to take visitors to Slab City and Salvation Mountain when I lived in Palm Springs. Just so unique. FWI, just down the road to the south banks of the Salton Sea are the mud pots of the San Andreas fault.
Yes, Gary, awesome area. We go to the mud pots often. 😊
Have driven past turnoffs that would lead to the area on both the 8 & 10 multiple times. On my next excursion that way I'll be sure to give it some time.
Ima have to use that unbelievably assured Simon style
" they are wrong" 😂
Been to Waitomo caves in Feb last year, quite amazing. The glow worm 'fishing lines' tend to drip on you as you float along in a boat.
Simon, Salvation Mountain was built from HAY and paint. Yes donated statues, auto parts, pictures, etc are with the rooms and area, the bulk of it is hay and paint, dead tree branches are used on some of the supporting arches. I personally spoke with Leonard and we asked about cement abd bricks and he said no, only hay and paint.
yep, I was down there a few years ago and a big storm had washed a portion away, leaving wet hay and a lot of dejected faces.
"Some people still claim it is man made, they are wrong."
Well of course they are Simon, you just told us it was giants.
highly underrated comment
In the Catacombs, I think it’s a lovely testament to the deceased that their bones were turned into beautiful (if a bit macabre) designs and architecture. Instead of piles of bones, their remains have been turned into monuments.
Definitely agree. They turned mass-graves into a beautiful display.
We still have this problem in Europe. Where I live bones are still pushed into a death pit once the lease of the plot is up.
The monument in Shumen (Bulgaria) was pretty interesting looking too. Looks a little better preserved too.
Yay Waitomo!
The 'Wai' in Waitomo could be said like 'why'. Really appreciate your attention to pronunciation. :)
well you clearly havent seen him Blazeee did you? :D
I've been there, it was amazing, till one dickhead who didn't know or care about the no flash photography signs, took a photo, destroying everyone's night vision, there's always one.
Your right wai is water and tomo is hole in the ground I live not far from them 👍 wonderful place to visit
@@bjw4859 ha ha yes there's always some clot like that 🤔I'm glad you enjoyed the experience 👍
as a NZ resident, definatly check the caves out... it's like looking up at the night sky with no light poloution...
and yes sadly Brian, there is almost always that one...
Touring the Catacombs in Paris was awesome. I highly recommend it, especially if you find yourself in Paris and aren't into art.
Zhat iz where Shief Inspector Dreyfus wanted to put Clouseau
I was there in 1989
Don't forget to leave an offering on Jim Morrison's grave (above ground).
@@WindTurbineSyndrome 94 for me
You know, after watching the Colossus episode I wouldn't mind seeing an episode on the largest statues (still standing) in the World, or maybe even of all time.
Waitomo is amazing, went there several years ago and still vividly remember it, highly recommend... while you’re in New Zealand, Milford Sound is another great place
Traveled there in in 1999 was very cool!
Saw a video about Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. It is a strange place. Although it is a typical modest sized plot of land in terms of value, at least two billionaires have owned it as a pet project of study of the paranormal. Despite zero proof and hard evidence, with basically just witness experiences, it's hard to dismiss the interest. Billionaires who know nothing about ranching, let alone not owning a pair of jeans, want this otherwise unpectacular rural real estate.
My brother's room is a strange place indeed. Things get burried in the Cheetos dust and animie magazines scientists can't explain where the missing items (keys, ect) went but they never resurface and never to be found again.
X-D nice.
It's a mystery even today....
I'm gonna suggest House on the Rock again. Weird doesn't even begin to describe it...
Even Neil Gaiman wrote about it. Rock on, yo!
I went there back in 2015 with my sister and I've been trying to convince my fiance to go back for 2 years. Only problem is it's 20 hours away in the middle of nowhere
@@zackmadden132 I’m a quick hour and fifteen minutes away. Try to go every year, buts it’s been a couple now.
I love that place!
@@billolsen4360 my absolute favorite roadside attraction. Just bonkers.
Weird to see Buzludza. I was there in 2019. It is really impressive and should be preserved.
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Predatory glow worms are also found in caves in south eastern Kentucky. Just Google "glow worms in eastern Kentucky caves" and you'll find many articles and research papers on them.
I Google "predatory glow worms in Kentucky" but all that came up was Mitch McConnell
Wow, I had no idea that GTA V took inspiration from slab city and put it towards the alien camp in their game. You can definitely see the influence just from looking at the two
Simon, how about St Patrick's Well in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy? It's a double helix dug in the mid 16th century.
Double helix dug in 16th Century! How much does it resemble DNA?
You could do an entire episode on abandoned Soviet monuments! There are several others abd they're all strange structures. I've been fascinated with them for years.
I love Simon. "Some naysayers insist they were man made, - they're wrong" Tell em how it is Si.
@Jennifer Taylor While that may be true, and it is also true that Rome did the very same thing, but actually lost the battle against the north and ended up falling, nevertheless the basalt formations are not in fact man-made. No amount of horrible history will change that.
@Jennifer Taylor Two wrongs.
@@Inertia888 Wrong
Croydon is often a strange place
Watch the movie The Gentlemen
Especially after midnight
Richard, I work there. In the town centre. Violent place.
Genuinely surprised that inside Simon's mind wasn't on the list
Only thing on Simon's mind is his next TH-cam channel. Mans gonna have 30 channels by next year
Infinite successful TH-cam channel ideas
We can't possibly know what's going on in the mind of a Time Lord. A dalek, yeah, but a Doctor? Nope
How about inside Simon’s beard?
I was waiting for something about his basement
I'm enjoying "Side Projects", because I've always sought out the weird & the unexplained.
I think 'the body on the reservoir' might be weird enough to cover here, Simon!
Great video!
We have glow worms at a place called Dismals Canyon in Phil Cambell, AL, USA. The species there is unique to that location.
If you do another video you could feature the Catatumbo everlasting lightning storm at Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela with over a million lightning bolts a year.
As if the Paris Catacombs weren't weird enough, you've got the added weirdness factor that Walt Disney originally wanted a Paris Catacomb themed tunnel to link the Haunted House to the Pirates of the Caribbean. He died before he could make anybody do it, though. All that remains of the plan is a bricked over arch that would have led into the tunnel.
Hah Buzludza monument have been used in more than one C-lister films as villains lair due to its interesting shape xD
(It’s actually spelled “lair”. [Hey-just trying to be helpful, that’s all!…])
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Аз не знаех знам че звучи иронично ама не се ебавам
That first one is a great example of Brutalism architecture which is hated by many (not I) but actually making a comeback. You could do an entire episode of the Spomenik that were built in the old Yugoslavia. there are over a hundred of them. If one of them cost 30 million I would say that the entirety of the all of them built could be a mega project.
So is "before covid" the new BC? that would make 2019 the new 1BC.
Could not have said it better. 😜
so lame. humanity has so much more to its legacy in the 21st century than some a virus with 99% survivability rate. i know it's a joke comment but some wouldn't think so.
How could Covid 19 start in 2020 to make 2019 1 BC?
@@patrickmccurry1563 you're a smart one...lol.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Exactly. It's called "Covid 19" because it debuted in 2019 (not because there were 18 previous Covids as twits like Ted Nugent believe) so 2019 would be Year 1 of the Covidian Calendar. There was no "Year Zero" in the Gregorian calendar so the Covidian calendar might as well follow suit. Which means we're currently living in 2AV (After Virus or Anno Viridae, either works)
Those cool basalt formations are also in the Appalachian Range in the state of Maine in America, across the Atlantic but the same geologic formation. This is from back when the two continents were attached, before the ocean was there. Pretty neat.
Hey Simon, you mentioned 'snow-birds' and showed Slab City (I think) in this video. It reminded me of film... if you haven't already seen it, check out the documentary, _Anerican Nomads,_ written, presented and narrated by journalist and feature writer, Richard Grant (NOT Richard _E._ Grant!). It's such an evocative film, with a sparse, yet outstanding soundtrack. It's awesome. Basically.
3:42 A necromancer's wet dream I imagine. 6M potential soldiers for his undead army if he resurrected them all at once. Someone needs to make a movie based on that.
That is a great idea. Ash vs The Catacombs
the amount of energy/sacrifice to accomplish such a feat would be massive. The reason necromancers like to hang out in crypts, is because there are so many dead bodies, they can summon them one at a time, and rest as needed instead of needing to overly exert themselves. Once you reach a critical mass, you unleash your horde and then summon a large quantity to replace them, for defence, as you rest until you're ready to summon again.
summoning the undead is taxing work myfriend. one must be thoughtful and plan ahead if one it to succeed in dominating the world of the dead.
Herein the rub; if each of your soldiers requires their own unique set of original bones, there's going to be a _lot_ of pushing and shoving and waiting...
@@timfriday9106 protein bars, lots and lots of protein bars.
But how would that fit into the Marvel universe? You can’t just come up with a new idea and make it into a movie you know
The Giants Causeway is on my bucket list of places to visit. Thanks for covering it.
I have learned more from TH-cam videos then I ever learned in school and Simon Whistler is responsible for like 50% of that.
@SideProjects In western France Karnak(Carnac), while working an engineering project in France I saw what amazed me, it looked like 5 giants had a race to stack on their ends thousands of massive stones(The Carnac alignments).
I have yet to understand why ordinary size humans would go to such colossal effort to approximately align massive stones, especially since they appear to come from quarries so far away. Please do a segment on this amazing location(or tell me did you cover it elsewhere else) SideProjects
I love you, Simon. You are great at this.
Some people: It's Man Made!
Simon: They're wrong.
Me: Alrighty then, Aliens it is!
When we get into the dystopian future, people may think exactly that.
For 66+ years, I've heard so many mind buggeringly ridiculous things that people believe. People that see themselves as perfectly rational, normal, individuals, "that are nobody's fool..." And then you regularly present oddities, and some of the even more ridiculous stories attached to them... and, Surprise! I'm now convinced that I'll go to my grave, knowing that the extent of human stew-pid-it-tee --- has only begun to be explored. No horizon in sight. 😢
XYZ = eXamine Your Zipper. Or at least it was in grade school.
Alright colour me confused. I thought I was binge watching Simon's channel which I found this evening ... Until I noticed the recommended videos are from a wide array of channels . Is this man the TH-cam king ? :P
Those glow worms can be seen and visited in person, in a number of well known tourist locations in Australia.
I live in the eastern state of New South Wales, in the city of Sydney, and I know that our state has two or three sites. I have visited one in person.
Large colonies congregate in caves and tunnels, due to the humidity, coolness, and relative stable temperature from winter to summer, compared to being outside.
The site I have visited is an old abandoned small-gauge rail tunnel cut through sandstone mountains, out near one of the old unpopulated mining towns, called Newnes.
To find it online, you like will need to search for glow worms and “Lithgow”, which is the nearest large inhabited town in that area.
This is a famous area, a couple hours drive west of Sydney, called the Blue Mountains, which are part of a huge range called the great dividing range.
I believe another site is an abandoned mine, south of Sydney, possibly near Kiama however I can’t be bothered searching to double check right now.
I've been to the Buzludzha monument, it's an amazing place.
Huh, Simon said “z” instead of “zed “
Simons pronunciation is famously often awful.
Not sure which channel this would be best for but I think a video on the Salton Sea in California would be interesting.
I would like to know the long term side effects of all the nuclear weapon tests that have gone on since the 40's. I'm sure all the radiation hasn't been good for the environment or our health.
The entire Salton Sea is an environmental disaster. ....then add radiation.... wow.
You're marked. So am I. It's in our bones. Millennia from now, when our corpses are excavated, scientists will say "You see these isotopes? This one lived in the Nuclear Age!" 😉
(Probably not any actual medical effects nowadays though, unless you were there.)
@@Russo-Delenda-Est Indeed. I'd speculate that I have a high probability of increased radiation "influence" within me seeing that I was born in the southern Nevada desert during the mid 70's... just after the desert testings ended.
Marked increase of thyroid dysfunction.
9.8/10 for blaze!
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
*WOW - Im off to visit the communist flying saucer Hah Buzludza next week* - I live in Bulgaria and I have been waiting for the lockdown to end to go see it...
Cool. Can you show us some updated pictures after you've gone... or, given the modern age, while you're there?
lol. ;-)
Further side project video Idea: Planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda triangle. The one with all those dive boomers.
Thanks for this, the first one is by far the most imaginative and weird, I guess in part because I hadn't heard of it before.
One thing I noticed was how video turned out to be quite the hodge lodge of measurements. All manner of meter, inch and feet are merrily mixed together. Perhaps providing both metric and freedom kernels base measurements would be possible?
Also, while interesting, the slabs part had no pictures of said slabs at all, just seemingly random images of stuff - alledgedly linked to the site. If someone were to ask me what it looks like, I would have to confess I haven't the foggiest.
A side project video on Danny and his extreme living conditions is needed!
You almost got the pronunciation right! The giant crickets you’re referring too are probably weta. One of the largest insects in the world. Totally harmless, but terrifying haha pronunciation would be “Wai” pronounced “why”, and “to” with the “o” pronounced as in “off” short sound. Same with “mo” wai to mo. If the vowel has a macron as in ō it’s a long vowel sound and pronounced more like “oh”. But I’m far from knowing anything at all about Te Reo 😢
Can you do an episode about ADE? It’s the biggest (dance) festival in the world held every year in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Dance Event is a week long electronic music festival with over 100 events and like a million visitors.
That'd be incredible to attend. I've been to events such as EDC and MM, and those were pretty sizable in there own rights, both being held in Southern California. However, I can't say that either has ever reached over a million visitors, but it has been a while since I last attended one. Fyi EDC = Electronic Daisy Carnival and MM = Monster Massive.
@@skyden24195 just did a little search and my milion estimate was a bit to large. Still 400k visitors to about 2000 events in about a week. Biggest events are in the Amsterdam Arena with about 30k visitors and DJs like Martin Garrix, Davis Guetta, Tiësto etc. It’s pretty awesome.
Is it just me or don't the reasons for the catacombs of Paris sound pretty illogical?
Like I've never thought of France as one of the countries in the world that have a very limited amount of free space left to work with and what kind of public health issues could possibly be linked to traditions where they're burying the dead in graveyards?
Luckily I don't know a ton about the subject of how the dead affect the living so I don't think I'm being too unfair questioning people in the past with limited available knowledge, so...
Spontaneously it doesn't sound like collecting dead bodies from all over the country to then place them in a huge underground maze below the highly populated capital would have a overall posetive impact on people's health if there were reasons to believe traditional burial grounds were problematic somehow.
Is there someone here who could shine some light on why this decision made any sense to anybody?
I mean it wasn't exactly effortless either so they probably thought there were plenty of motivation to get it done and not just on a whim.
I love the intro, straight to the point
Good day Simon.
How you doing?
Massive NZ fan here.
Those caves are pronounced ‘why-toe-mow’
You did well!
Ps: been there...
You “can’t” see the worms, but you can see their work.
Recommend a visit. 100%
The nations of former Yugoslavia have a heap of bizarre concrete structures
Slab city is a crazy place but interesting! Don't go at night.
Why not? Creepy, or dangerous?
@@GuntherRommel : dangerous
@@GuntherRommel both really. There's lots of druggies and the place isn't patrolled by sheriff deputies often.
@@albertlira7443 and to you "druggies" are automatically dangerous? Have you have a bad experience there?
@@ArchieStiglitz No, only the ones with knives that want your wallet and watch. The other ones are OK.
Good vid Simon, thanks
Visited Waitomo whilst backpacking - its great, definitely worth a visit.
The Thulean plateau is of course the setting for the cover art of Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy". "Fingal's Cave" is the title of one of the many unused recordings created during Pink Floyd's sessions for the soundtrack for Antonioni's 1970 movie "Zabriskie Point". Death Valley and its Zabriskie Point are themselves mighty strange places.
Side Projects? A second Simon channel? Awesome. Will be difficult to juggle this and top 10s.
Another entertaining video Simon 👏👌
I live 4 hours from Slab City and I had never heard of it lol. Thanks Simon!
i love how much you put Ireland in the vids
You got the pronunciation right for Waitomo Caves 👌they’re a great tourist attraction-you should go sometime. It’s a beautiful area of the world. Born in Blighty UK 🇬🇧 I live in New Zealand 🇳🇿 now 👌
love your videos ty
I got one that's pretty interesting I believe there's a place in Mexico where there's an underground cave full of Giant Crystals that looks a lot like Superman Fortress of Solitude.
If you have been to Alron Towers in the UK and been on the ride Hex. It starts off with a story about Rich nobleman who was cursed by an elderly woman that if a branch should ever fall from a certain, death shall fall upon his family. Then one night it was struck by lightning and a branch broke off. Sure enough a family member died. The nobleman then had the tree bound in chains to prevent further branches falling. Off. Some of the story told on this ride is true.. in the wood surrounding the village is a tree with a broken branch and is bound in chains from the either the 18th or 19th century. You should do a video on the true story of the Chained tree in the village of Alton
I think the "super-sized crickets" you are referring to are probably Cave Wetas. We also have Giant Wetas... harmless but scary as heck!
I'd love a video on the Bismarck battleship. I know you've done the Yamato and several aircraft carriers before, but the Bismarck was such a behemoth of German engineering (for better & for worse)
So true
NZ person here, gotta say your pronounciation of Waitomo was actually half decent, so good job with that Simon.
01:57 why do those look so much like cartoon tanks, it's killing me 😂
My Grandmother told me a story about a tour she was on as a girl. The tour guide was a bit drunk and was pointing out stalactites and stalagmites when someone ask what are they call when they come together. He comes back with "mighty tight." I have always like that story and it's what I call them in my head.
If please do something on the salton sea. You mentioned it when you were talking about slab city but I've been waiting for you to do a Mega Projects Or geographicson it for a while
As a New Zealander, actually pretty impressed with your pronunciation of Waitomo
The giant's causeway also features on Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy album cover!
I knew that looked familiar!
What’s with the fuzzy purple graphics and photos?
Might be a copyright issue but seems odd if so.
SimonSays truth I love your channels thank you.
Could say Parliament is probably one of the strangest places on the planet, but that is too obvious
The US House and Senate rank right up ( or down) there on strangeness scale
Next time you do a weird/random structures video try to throw the Foam Henge in Virginia,USA. It's pretty funny, replica of Stone Henge...just made of giant blocks of foam and in the middle of nowhere
When I first saw Buzludzah I got flashbacks from my time spent in Riyadh... The ministry of information there also has similar UFO attributes
Quick Q. Do you have a twitter handler? I pretty much get my updates from there and just want to know if that is an option. While we are at that can you drop something about the Pyrenees?
The first one looks like one of those revolving restaurants.
Simon...i was hoping to see the ancient nuclear reactor of Oklo, Africa on this list
You finally said it *correctly!* Great job!
You should do a video on the la Brea tar pits!!
Can u do a world's fair project, I'd like to know why they stopped and what they were, great videos!
You can’t fool me - Dimitar Blagoev is Misha Collins wearing a funny beard
Manitou Beach, SK. In the middle of the North American continent and not connected to any other bodies of water yet it’s a salt water lake as salty as the Dead Sea and you don’t have to worry about knowing how to swim because the water is so buoyant that you just float on the surface.
Can you please do an episode on the wing suit? A lot of people died in the creation of it and it would cool to hear their stories.
That would be a good "Sideprojects" as opposed to, say, the parachute. Funny enough, "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Cradle of Life," which is (as of this posting) available on TH-cam movies, and I repeatedly keep watching, features our hero and her companion using said suits to escape baddies.
That soviet monument looks like something right out of Star Trek, I'm sure I've seen something like it in TOS, which the commies couldn't POSSIBLY have seen to borrow designs from, of course... :P
More like Blofelds lair from OHMSS
I thought it looked like the building that Thunderbird 3 launches through
I still prefer Groucho to Karl
@@blueberrypirate3601 Didn't Bond James Bond actually kill Blofeld by dumping him from a helicopter into an industrial chimney around 1978?
@@billolsen4360 say what you want about Karl Marx, but his writings sure have killed a lot of commies!
Simon, why haven't you covered Lepidus yet? Does Biographics have a Side projects equivalent for historical B-listers?